Tourist Minesweeper is a twist on the classic puzzle game, using a gridded map of real locations to highlight the spread of Airbnb in popular Spanish tourist destinations. If you’ve ever played Minesweeper (and who hasn’t?), you’ll recognize the rules - but here, instead of dodging bombs, you’re “sweeping” for zones of tourist pressure.
Currently you can play Tourist Minesweeper on gridded maps of Mallorca and Barcelona (more locations are on the way). It is worth noting that the visualization rules are a little different in each location:
- In Mallorca, a cell has a mine if it contains more than 15 Airbnb listings, turning clusters of vacation rentals into hotspots on the map.
- The Barcelona map, on the other hand, uses price as its metric: any grid cell with an average nightly rate above €200 is treated as a mine.
This shift between quantity in Mallorca and affordability in Barcelona highlights different facets of the tourism problem - the sheer density of rentals in one case, and the economic pressure of high prices in the other.
The grid cells in each city are also based on different sized areas. I believe that in Barcelona each grid cell represents a 500 m square, while in Mallorca each grid cell is a 2 km² area.
Via: Quantum of Sollazzo
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